Our seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co came yesterday. I don’t think I’ll be planting the cucumbers, but I could change my mind. Along with these plants we’ll be adding seeds from the previous years including lettuce, carrots, spinach, and many others. Over the next week or so I hope to finish our planting […]
Category Archives: Gardening
Photo Gallery
I’ve added a Photo Gallery to the new site. I have a bunch of photos to upload, but here are a a couple from our first porch garden. [thumb:2:l][thumb:1:r]Back from 2004 our Earthboxes first arrived and we started our seeds in the window. Those are Thai Pink Egg tomatoes coming up. The new gallery should […]
Carrots Love Tomatoes
Carrots Love Tomatoes : Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening I’ve been meaning to read this book for quite awhile. I’m waiting for theAll New Square Foot Gardening book to arrive from Amazon.com, so thought I’d get this one read in the meantime. I’ve been working on my planting chart but I want to […]
27°F
It’s 27°F right now on the porch. My online weather icon says it’s 21°F. The forecast: TODAY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 40S. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. TONIGHT MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE 20S. NORTH WIND AROUND 10 MPH. THURSDAY MOSTLY CLOUDY. BECOMING WINDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS. HIGHS […]
2006 Porch Garden – More Pics
It was a bit dark the other day when I took the pictures. Today the sun came out for awhile so I took a few more pictures of the new porch layout. This shot is looking out the door. There are a couple more containers to the left out of the frame. The chard is […]
Getting ready
We’re getting the porch garden ready for the new year. I’ve got most of the containers pretty much set and added some smaller containers. I need to pick up a bit more soil to top off some of the boxes. I still haven’t taken out the chard and done anything with that box. I do […]
